fomentation

Example Sentences

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The cause of this fomentation of tourists was a gleaming, new, $750,000 Latter-day Saints Temple.

From Time Magazine Archive

Concerned that Fanny was not improving, Emma and Elizabeth sent for the apothecary, a Mr. B., who “ordered fomentation with poppy heads,” Emma noted.

From "Charles and Emma: The Darwins' Leap of Faith" by Deborah Heiligman

For a moment I, just able to do a poultice or a fomentation, resented it.

From A Diary Without Dates by Bagnold, Enid

A blister may also be applied on the head, and the fomentation nevertheless occasionally repeated.

From Zoonomia, Vol. II Or, the Laws of Organic Life by Darwin, Erasmus

Should not this treatment give relief, make a fomentation of hops, and apply it to the belly; and give half an ounce of manna.

From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by Dadd, George